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sluggardize

sluggardize verb: to make lazy.

Verb

sluggardize (third-person singular simple present sluggardizes, present participle sluggardizing, simple past and past participle sluggardized)

  1. (archaic, rare, transitive) To make lazy.
    • living dully sluggardized at homec. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms of sluggardize

third-person singular presentsluggardizes
present participlesluggardizing
past participlesluggardized
pastsluggardized

Origin of sluggardize

From sluggard + -ize.

Questions about sluggardize

What does sluggardize mean?
Sluggardize means to make lazy.
What part of speech is sluggardize?
Sluggardize is a verb.
What is the past tense of sluggardize?
The past tense of sluggardize is sluggardized.

Words near sluggardize in the dictionary

  1. sluggard
  2. sluggardise
  3. sluggardised
  4. sluggardises
  5. sluggardising
  6. sluggardize
  7. sluggardized
  8. sluggardizes
  9. sluggardizing
  10. sluggardliness
  11. sluggardly

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